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Have just been reading the 50th book, and how in the past, leaked artists would pull out because they've been leaked. 😕 I hadn't considered that alone could lead to artists backing out.

Congratulations Michael, one of the more deserved awards I've seen in recent years... He deserves it for his contributions to music and culture alone. But with the charity work too, it's mind blowing that it's taken until now. On the honours system in general, meh, I have no strong opinions either way. We need a system for recognising great contributions to society, and that's exactly what it is. If the Royal family really are all that many people claim they are these days, a tourist attraction adding almost £2Bn to the UK economy each year, then might as well use them for this too, to add a bit of 'prestige' to the honour for those who've earned it. I dislike the current government way more than I could ever dislike a fairly meaningless figurehead monarchy system.

Merry Christmas Everybody Don't need to with you lot, but still will... Can I just remind you all to be kind to those missing Christmas with their own families and working their asses off in the hospitality trade to make yours special. Same goes for everybody else working too for that matter, emergency and medical services, carers, critical services, retail staff everybody that has to work, you're appreciated xx.

Brilliant, thanks for doing this Stanh.

There's not a lot mods can do, on the off chance that the account turns out to be a real person. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. Could set the user account to always require mod approval for posts, but that's a LOT more work for mods then, and again, may be a bit draconian if we / you have called it wrong.

Yep, they post a few posts, go silent, then in a few weeks or months, they flood every thread with an advert... Bloody nightmare they are, have been plaguing all the different forums I visit for a while now.

I'd be super happy with a fully detailed map, like that festi food one could have been but never was... Detailing every single amenity, vendor, stage etc from the previous festival. Never going to happen though, somebody would have to give up their entire festival to map it out. (Festi food doesn't work at all any more.)

Looks like a dead project to me, new areas not updated, old submissions and seemingly no new ones added, still using the 2019 map.

What does she need extra staging and screening for? Hasn't she been singing to a backing track with no live band? Or did I read that wrong.

Congrats Hugh Jass We took a one year old with us last year, our friend's baby. I thought she was brilliant, well behaved, barely a bother. But our friends, the parents, hated it. Completely changed their Glasto (they've been going for much longer than us.) They also spent a lot of time protecting the buggy from drunken idiots climbing over it or moving it out of the way in crowds, despite being near to the back. (Hence why parents feel the need to build a protective circle of chairs around babies.) They found the experience so scary that they're not taking her again until she's at least 9 or 10. 😕

Alton Towers and Dove Dale... Win Win. Dovedale and Manifold area is nice, think we've spoken about it before? Have you visited the high peaks too? Winnats pass definitely reminds me of something I've seen in Scotland, but I can't remember where or what.

Definitely, even around here, the Peak District, and other places in England I cover up, never walk in shorts and use plenty of good strong Deet. Horseflies are nasty little gits, we get more than our fair share of them here in Derbyshire, but thankfully the Deet keeps them away too. I forgot the Deet once last year on a walk around Three Shires head. Coming up the back of the hill from the head, before passing over Wolf Edge and down into Flash, the hill side was full of heather, looked beautiful, but it was also full of something nasty. No idea what they were but they bit the hell out of me, arms, neck, face, everywhere that was exposed, I looked like I'd done 12 rounds with <Insert Well Known Boxer Here>. I won't make that mistake again. Kendal Calling was bad for flying bugs too. We camped in Haye Parks North, near the tree line, as we thought we'd be clever and use it as shelter from the wind. That actually worked out well, lots of tents seemed to get flattened by the wind that weekend, but we barely got a breeze up there. However, we were also swarmed with all sort of flying bugs, including flying ants, the skin of the tent looked like it was alive at times.

Do you know, I knew nothing about that and it's links to ticks until I heard Ren's story, and I think that's what terrifies me now.

Will do, we'll be back on it in the spring, (I only have 3 season gear.) Dartmoor, the Lakes, Peak District... I want to do Scotland at some point too, but I have an irrational fear of ticks 🙈🤣

Underrated response... Pretty much the gold standard of 'affordable enough' ultralight camping gear... Affordable enough comes with a big asterix though, they're hardly cheap. But if I am hiking long distances to wild camp on top of one of the Dartmoor Tors, I'm taking my Thermarest matt. One of them, a good ultralight down sleeping bag, even a cheap one like an OEX Helios EV 300, and an ultralight tent like the Vango F10 Helium UL 2... And your camping gear would barely add any weight or take up any room. Arrival day would be a breeze. In fact, here I am with that very set up on an extremely windy day somewhere in Dartmoor...

Why is there so much U2 talk in here... You're making me nervous!

9pm NYE... Figured out what's happening yet?

I thought so too, I thought Sam Fender was moved up to replace her??? Is that not the case?

That's actually a brilliant idea. I'm here for that. But please not a 'rent your headphones for the whole weekend' setup like Kendal... Let people come and go, allowing more people to join in.

I like Car Henge, it just needs a stage is all.

Probably not the right thread for this, but it's weird, considering more and more glamping options seemingly popping up, and selling out... People bringing bigger tents maybe?

Could they change both, maybe improve capacity by using both as one bigger late night open venue? Yep, was said that it was supposed to have a stage last year, but they ran out of time.

I'll take your word for it... 🤞

not what I expected, been listening to a lot more rock and pop this year than usual, surprised nothing features… really surprised Fred is top, listened to him much more last year I’d say. 🤷🏻‍♂️ last 6 month instafest just to prove D&B / EDM isn’t all I listen to 🙈😂

I enjoyed the Hop & Liquor in 2022, cheesy bangers late at night. Didn't seem the same this year in it's new home though. 😕